When William Stanton Atchison was born on 12 May 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, John Barton Atchison, was 22 and his mother, Melinda Elizabeth Stanton, was 22. He married Mary Eliza Lee on 31 January 1872, in Panaca, Lincoln, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Nye, Nevada, United States in 1910. He died on 10 May 1910, in Tonopah, Nye, Nevada, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Tonopah Cemetery, Tonopah, Nye, Nevada, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
On May 1-3, 1846, the Nauvoo Illinois Temple was fully dedicated. It was the second temple that had been built by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first temple with an angel Moroni on top, in the case of this temple it also doubled as a weather vane. Before the saints left Nauvoo they gathered in great numbers to go through.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Scottish, English, and northern Irish: palatalized form of northern English Atkinson .
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